Gemini Meeting Agenda & Facilitation Guide Prompt
Create structured meeting agendas that end on time, make decisions, and have clear action items.
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🚀 Productivity
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Beginner
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3
Last Updated
2026-06-28
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📋 Prompt
You are a professional meeting facilitator who has led executive meetings for Fortune 500 companies where every minute has a cost.
Meeting type: [meeting type — team standup/strategic planning/problem-solving/decision-making/retrospective/1:1/client kickoff]
Duration: [duration] minutes
Attendees: [attendees — roles and number of people]
Primary outcome: [primary outcome — what must be decided or achieved by end of meeting]
Task: Build a complete meeting agenda:
1. PRE-MEETING (send 48 hours before):
- Clear objective statement (what 'done' looks like)
- Pre-read materials needed
- Decisions to make vs. items to discuss vs. items to inform
2. AGENDA (time-boxed to [duration] minutes):
For each section:
[Time allocation] — [Section name] — [What happens] — [Owner]
Include: Buffer time for overruns
3. DECISION FRAMEWORK:
- What decisions need to be made in this meeting
- Who has final say on each
- What information is needed to make each decision
4. FACILITATION NOTES:
- How to open the meeting (not 'let's get started')
- How to handle tangents
- How to handle a dominant voice
- How to end without overrunning
5. ACTION ITEM TEMPLATE:
[Action] — [Owner] — [Due date] — [Success criteria]
6. POST-MEETING:
What to send within 24 hours of the meeting
Meeting type: [meeting type — team standup/strategic planning/problem-solving/decision-making/retrospective/1:1/client kickoff]
Duration: [duration] minutes
Attendees: [attendees — roles and number of people]
Primary outcome: [primary outcome — what must be decided or achieved by end of meeting]
Task: Build a complete meeting agenda:
1. PRE-MEETING (send 48 hours before):
- Clear objective statement (what 'done' looks like)
- Pre-read materials needed
- Decisions to make vs. items to discuss vs. items to inform
2. AGENDA (time-boxed to [duration] minutes):
For each section:
[Time allocation] — [Section name] — [What happens] — [Owner]
Include: Buffer time for overruns
3. DECISION FRAMEWORK:
- What decisions need to be made in this meeting
- Who has final say on each
- What information is needed to make each decision
4. FACILITATION NOTES:
- How to open the meeting (not 'let's get started')
- How to handle tangents
- How to handle a dominant voice
- How to end without overrunning
5. ACTION ITEM TEMPLATE:
[Action] — [Owner] — [Due date] — [Success criteria]
6. POST-MEETING:
What to send within 24 hours of the meeting
QUARTERLY PLANNING MEETING — 90 minutes
Attendees: Founder, Head of Marketing, Head of Product
Outcome: Agreed Q3 priority list with resource allocation decisions made
PRE-MEETING (send 48h before):
'In our 90-minute meeting on [date], we'll agree the Q3 priority list and who owns what. Before attending, please:
1. Review the Q2 OKR results doc (linked)
2. Come with your top 3 priorities for Q3 and why
3. Note any resource constraints your team is facing
Decisions we WILL make: Q3 priority ranking, resource allocation between product and marketing
Decisions we will NOT make: individual OKR targets, hiring decisions (separate meeting)
'
AGENDA:
[0–10 min] OPEN: Q2 recap — what did we ship, what are the numbers? Each person: 2 minutes, no slides
[10–25 min] OPPORTUNITY MAPPING: Each person presents their top 3 Q3 priorities. No debate yet — just get everything on the whiteboard.
[25–55 min] PRIORITISATION: Using the 2×2 (impact vs. effort), decide which opportunities are Q3 vs. Q4 vs. later. Target: 3–5 Q3 priorities.
[55–70 min] RESOURCE ALLOCATION: For each Q3 priority — who owns it, how much of whose time does it need?
[70–80 min] OPEN ISSUES: Anything that didn't fit into the above — 2 mins per person max
[80–90 min] ACTION ITEMS + CLOSE: Document every decision and action item. State them aloud before ending.
FACILITATION NOTES:
Open with: 'We have 90 minutes and one job: leave knowing exactly what Q3 looks like. Let's start by spending 10 minutes on where we are.'
Handling tangents: 'That's important — let's put it in the parking lot so we don't lose it, and come back to it at minute 70.'
Ending hard at 90 min: '10 minutes left. Let's capture every action item before we close.'
Attendees: Founder, Head of Marketing, Head of Product
Outcome: Agreed Q3 priority list with resource allocation decisions made
PRE-MEETING (send 48h before):
'In our 90-minute meeting on [date], we'll agree the Q3 priority list and who owns what. Before attending, please:
1. Review the Q2 OKR results doc (linked)
2. Come with your top 3 priorities for Q3 and why
3. Note any resource constraints your team is facing
Decisions we WILL make: Q3 priority ranking, resource allocation between product and marketing
Decisions we will NOT make: individual OKR targets, hiring decisions (separate meeting)
'
AGENDA:
[0–10 min] OPEN: Q2 recap — what did we ship, what are the numbers? Each person: 2 minutes, no slides
[10–25 min] OPPORTUNITY MAPPING: Each person presents their top 3 Q3 priorities. No debate yet — just get everything on the whiteboard.
[25–55 min] PRIORITISATION: Using the 2×2 (impact vs. effort), decide which opportunities are Q3 vs. Q4 vs. later. Target: 3–5 Q3 priorities.
[55–70 min] RESOURCE ALLOCATION: For each Q3 priority — who owns it, how much of whose time does it need?
[70–80 min] OPEN ISSUES: Anything that didn't fit into the above — 2 mins per person max
[80–90 min] ACTION ITEMS + CLOSE: Document every decision and action item. State them aloud before ending.
FACILITATION NOTES:
Open with: 'We have 90 minutes and one job: leave knowing exactly what Q3 looks like. Let's start by spending 10 minutes on where we are.'
Handling tangents: 'That's important — let's put it in the parking lot so we don't lose it, and come back to it at minute 70.'
Ending hard at 90 min: '10 minutes left. Let's capture every action item before we close.'
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💡 Pro Tips
Best model for this prompt
Claude
Claude (Opus 4 / Sonnet 4)
Send the agenda 48 hours before — last-minute agendas mean people arrive unprepared, and the first 15 minutes are wasted catching up
Every agenda item should have an owner and an output — not 'discuss marketing' but 'Head of Marketing presents Q3 content plan — 10 min'
Start on time regardless of who's missing — starting late trains people to arrive late
The most important 10 minutes of any meeting is the last 10: action items with owners, due dates, and success criteria
More agenda items than time allows — most 60-minute meetings need a 45-minute agenda
No pre-read sent in advance — arriving cold means the first 20 minutes are synchronisation, not decision-making
Mixing discussion and decision in the same agenda item without being explicit about which is happening
No action item template — 'we should look into that' is not an action item; 'Alex to research pricing by Friday' is
- How many agenda items should a 60-minute meeting have?3–5 is the practical maximum. More items mean less time per item, which means more is discussed and less is decided. The agenda should be optimistic about focus and pessimistic about time.
- Should I use a decision log in meetings?Yes — a simple table of 'decision | what was decided | who decided | date' shared after every meeting dramatically reduces re-litigation of past decisions. Teams that keep decision logs make decisions faster because they don't relitigate every historical choice.
- How do I handle a meeting that has no clear purpose?Before sending the invite, complete this sentence: 'This meeting needs to happen because [reason], and it will be successful if [outcome].' If you can't complete it, the meeting shouldn't happen — send an email instead.
- Which AI model writes the best meeting agendas?Claude is strongest for meeting facilitation — it follows complex structural requirements and writes facilitation notes that account for real meeting dynamics (dominant voices, tangents, time pressure). For simpler agendas, any model works well.